What is an effect of chaucer's decision to use a pilgrimage as the central premise for the canterbury tales?
a. it sets up an expectation that exempla, which were common in didactic medieval literature, will be part of the story.
b. it allows chaucer to write his poem in english because he is capturing the speech of english commoners.
c. it provides chaucer with an opportunity to write about characters that represent a wide range of social classes.
d. it makes the messages of the pilgrims more persuasive because a reader in chaucer’s time would have respected them for their fervent religious beliefs.

Which statement accurately synthesizes information from this passage's map and the information from the article itself? a) according to vincent, california--because it has 55 delegates--basically chooses the new president of the united states. b) the graphic shows how many senators each state elects to the capitol, while the article describes the duties of each senator once elected. c) championing the usefulness of the electoral college, vincent shows in the graphic how no state has truly any more votes than another state. d) vincent finds it unjust that the votes for president from people in texas count more than the votes of the people of north and south carolina combined.